Detective work on the historic landscape surrounding a Grade II* listed country house has begun as part of a two-year Knowledge Transfer project between the University of Exeter and the Poltimore House Trust.

Within the UK, the prevailing image of bombing in the Second World War is still that of the 'Blitz' in which British people all pulled together, their morale stiffened by their shared experiences, until the storm was over. The purpose of this project is to put the Blitz into a broader comparative framework by examining the political and cultural effects of bombing during the Second World War in Germany, France and Italy, as well as in Britain.

Since the 1980’s, the work of black British artists has risen to prominence. Artists such as Frank Bowling and Sonia Boyce are displayed in the collections of some of the World’s best known museums including the Tate, the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

A team of specialists from the University of Bristol has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to conduct the first ever comparative study of ‘Buddhist Death Rituals of Southeast Asia and China’.

The art installation titled ‘In Other People’s Skins’ is the brain child of Terry Flaxton an AHRC Creative Research Fellow. ‘In Other People's Skins’ is inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper. It consists of a large table covered in a white cloth and surrounded by chairs. Projected from above onto the white surface will be life size moving images of hands and arms of 12 people as they take food, break the bread, drink the wine. Visitors to the installation will be free to sit down at one of the 12 chairs and interact with the virtual guests - and to inhabit ‘Other People's Skins’.

A research project funded by an AHRC standard Research Grant is currently being undertaken by academics at the University of Bristol. This project could transform key aspects of the study of modern China by making available for the first time previously unseen historical archives.